1913-2002

Egyptian artist, poet and painter. Born in Alexandria.

He enrolled in the Faculty of Fine Arts in 1928, at the age of 15, to be one of the first Egyptian students to enroll in it. He first studied under foreign professors until 1930, then under Youssef Kamel and Ahmed Sabry. After graduation, he worked in the founding of the wax museum, then moved to Morocco, where he spent three years as a painting teacher, an important stage in his formation. Bicar drew his first illustrations there when the Spanish language teacher wrote a book to teach the language to the students, and asked Bicar, the then painting teacher, to translate the words into pictures.

He then returned to Cairo in 1942 and worked as an assistant to his teacher, Ahmed Sabry, and took over the head of the free department, succeeding Sabry, who moved on to head the photography department.

Bicar is a distinguished visual artist belonging to the second generation of Egyptian artists. He wrote quatrains and quintets filled with wisdom and eloquence, and remained a giver throughout his life, and a teacher for many generations. He is the owner of a school of journalistic art and children’s journalism in particular. As for his oil paintings, they are characterized by their high level of composition, coloring and strength of expression, as he is a sensitive artist and a poetic art critic.

Pekar distinguished himself in the art of portraiture, which he considers to be a drawing and summarizing a life on a flat surface, a past, present and future life, as he creates it in its sweetest state as a composition and relationships that approach the character by dealing and talking, capturing the moment and expressing it with color and touch.

Nubia is the love of our late artist Bikar, he loved it and adored its people, people and nature since he set foot on its land in the sixties. Dr. Tharwat Okasha, then Minister of Culture, invited artists and writers to visit it, and Bikar traveled within and